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Orianthi on returning to Alice Cooper – and why she'll take a different approach to Nita Strauss
Orianthi previously toured with Alice Cooper from 2011 to 2014 before passing the baton to Nita Strauss
Orianthi will re-join Alice Cooper’s band on tour as a fill-in for her successor, Nita Strauss
Orianthi toured with Cooper from 2011 through 2014, and will reunite with his band for a series of shows from late January through mid-February 2025
Sophie Lloyd announces her debut solo US show – and marks the occasion with a shred reimagining of Alice Cooper’s Poison
After selling out her debut solo show in London in just five minutes earlier this year, the superstar shredder is now set to perform at LA’s legendary Whisky A Go Go
“Wanna get employed with a touring band? Play mind-blowing rhythm parts”: Alice Cooper guitarist Ryan Roxie on the importance of rhythm guitar
Roxie has toured with the best. He explains why you need more than fancy chops to make it as a touring musician
Damon Johnson on playing with Thin Lizzy and Lynyrd Skynyrd – and why Eddie Van Halen gifted him a guitar
From touring with Van Halen, to finding his own niche as a blood-and-guts player with some of rock’s biggest names
“Other guitar players could hear what he was doing and go, ‘Oh my gosh, this guy's amazing’”: Alice Cooper says Eddie Van Halen asked him to set up a guitar lesson with Glen Campbell
The guitar hero was keen to learn from the Wrecking Crew regular and six-string ace
“This is one more shot at glory for me. I know the things I’ve been denied. I shouldn’t have to build it up all over again”: K.K. Downing on reclaiming his legacy with KK’s Priest – and what his one-off reunion with Judas Priest was really like
The original “Sinner” takes you behind the scenes of his dramas in and out of Priest and their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction – and why his turbo-charged new album is “about the fight and the victory”
“I still remember writing the intro to Sweet Jane sitting on a couch in my living room”: How a session guitar legend resurrected Lou Reed’s career with hard-rock lead heroics – and help from Blood, Sweat & Tears’ Steve Katz
He was the ghost player on Aerosmith's Train Kept a Rollin’, and defined many a classic Alice Cooper album with his stinging, melodic leads, but Lou Reed's ferocious Rock ’n’ Roll Animal live album may just be Steve Hunter’s finest hour – and contains one of the most underrated twin-guitar solos of the ’70s
“Joe Perry had hit a block, so I was called in to play on Train Kept a Rollin’. They said, ‘Don't tell anyone – no-one can know’”: From Alice Cooper to Peter Gabriel and Aerosmith, Steve Hunter has led one of session guitar’s most remarkable careers
The session veteran tells his greatest war stories: how he wrote the epic intro to Lou Reed’s Sweet Jane, what he taught Jason Becker for his stint with David Lee Roth, and why he believes losing his sight made him a better guitar player
